Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington Borough]
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Requisitioned Properties—Inspected 233
do. Separate Lettings in above 299
do. Reinspected 419
do. Separate Lettings in above 539
National Assistance Act (Section 47).—Aged and Infirm Persons.
Cases Investigated 192
Cases revisited 367
Housing Acts.
Sections 57/62, etc.—Inspections and Revisits 876
Survey of Areas—Preliminary Investigations 415
Sections 9, 11, 12, etc. 752
do. Separate Lettings in above 801
M iscellaneous.
Other Visits or Inspections not specified above 3,362
Non-effective Visits 7,380
Total Nuisances and Contraventions Reported (All sources) 23,386
*Food & Drugs Act, etc.—Week End [Saturday—Sunday) Duty.
Retail Shops and Food Purveyors Inspected 110
Street Markets Visited 179
Barrows, Stalls Inspected 178
*See also Section E.
Rent and Mortgage Interest Restrictions Acts, 1920 to 1939.
Certificates of Disrepair.
Applications brought forward from 1950 1
Applications in 1951 86
Total 87
Certificates issued in 1951 82
Applications refused in 1951 4
Balance to 1952 1
Total 87
Clearance Certificates.
Applications brought forward from 1950 5
Applications in 1951 55
Total 60
Certificates issued in 1951 42
Applications refused in 1951 17
Balance to 1952 1
Total 60
Public Health (London) Act, 1936—Sections 40 and 109.
Consequent upon Notices served by the Sanitary Inspectors under Sections 40
and 109 respectively, of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936, the Council, in
pursuance of their powers under this Act to carry out urgent sanitary and drainage
work in default, executed work amounting to a total of £1,165.